Double-Tongued Dictionary Index

The Double-Tongued Dictionary (formerly Double-Tongued Word Wrester) was a web lexicon of new words and fringe English compiled and edited by A Way with Words co-host Grant Barrett and volunteers since 2004. In 2012, the dictionary was merged with this website. Read about the merger, including more information about the dictionary’s contents. Entries may include obscene language or adult themes.

Blind Tiger 02/27/2015: When you pick up a book of poems, how many do you read in one sitting? Some people devour several in a row, while others... [more]

Idiom's Delight 02/20/2015: A recent study found that some names crop up more frequently than others in certain professions. The name William is especially common among attorneys--and graphic... [more]

Whistle Britches 02/13/2015: Writers and where they do their best creative work. A new book on Geoffrey Chaucer describes the dark, cramped, smelly room where he wrote his early... [more]

Noon Balloon to Rangoon 02/06/2015: Is there a word you keep having to look up in the dictionary, no matter how many times you've looked it up before? Maybe it's... [more]

Above Your Raisin' 02/02/2015: There's a new kind of hamburger menu that involves pixels, not pickles. It's that little stack of horizontal lines in the corner of a webpage... [more]